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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Virginia (May 1)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Virginia. *** Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute, New Haven, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,433,592) developed by Dale T. Houle, Milford, Conn., and Laurin Eck, Stafford, Va., for a "method and system for determining buffer inventory size." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining an optimum buffer inventory size by generating a time-based demand pattern that is based on processing discreet demand data through a sliding time window and summing the demand quantity in that time window, and repeating that process as the time window then moves through the time-line of discrete demand, thereby establishing a pattern of cumulative demand in windows-of-time along a time-line. The process moves along the demand time-line from one demand point to the next demand point, summing up all of the demand in a window of time that corresponds to the Time-to-Reliably Replenish (TRR). The method plots each summation of demand for its corresponding window of time (TRR) on a time-line at a point in time coinciding with the first demand data element in each summation. The resulting buffer size is based on the conversion of discrete demand data into time-based demand patterns." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2005 (11/229,234). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,433,592&OS=8,433,592&RS=8,433,592 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** U.S. Navy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (8,433,959) developed by Simson Leon Garfinkel, Arlington, Va., and Alexander Joseph Nelson, Santa Cruz, Calif., for a "method for determining hard drive contents through statistical drive sampling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for rapidly characterizing the forensic contents of a digital storage device using statistical drive sampling." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2010 (12/876,416). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,433,959.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,959&RS=PN/8,433,959 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Quantum Matrix Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Quantum Matrix Holdings, Castle Rock, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,434,027) developed by Dennis Benson Jones, Blacksburg, Va., for a "system and method for multi-dimensional organization, management, and manipulation of remote data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The Quantum Matrix system is a multi-dimensional, multi-threaded exchange environment for data organization, management, and manipulation. Data is organized into a multi-dimensional structure of nodes. Nodes may represent data, absence of data, or another set of nodes. The multi-dimensional structure or portions of it can be automatically created from a file system. One or more associations are also defined for the multi-dimensional structure. An association indicates a relationship between a node and another node, data, or a set of nodes. The multi-dimensional structure is then displayed three-dimensionally and navigated. Relational logic, Boolean algebra, or a scripting language can be applied to the nodes, data, and associations to produce a resultant set of nodes. Furthermore, portions of the multi-dimensional structure can be isolated with the use of planes to ease navigation. Furthermore, the Quantum Matrix system may have a client-server architecture, with the client running on a mobile device." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2009 (12/435,157). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,434,027&OS=8,434,027&RS=8,434,027 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Standardized Visual Indicators in Electronic Media ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,434,010) developed by four co-inventors for "standardized visual indicators in electronic media." The co-inventors are Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, Va., Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, N.C., and James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for associating a standardized electronic icon with a user and displaying the icon with electronic communications of the user are disclosed. A computer implemented method includes: determining one or more icons to associate with an individual when the individual creates an electronic message; and at least one of selectively and automatically appending at least one of the one or more icons that are associated with the individual to the electronic message. The at least one of the one or more icons is subsequently displayed with the electronic message to a recipient to provide information about the individual to the recipient." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2009 (12/370,211). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,434,010&OS=8,434,010&RS=8,434,010 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System, and Method for Hiding Advanced XML Schema Properties in EMF Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,434,055) developed by Frank Budinsky, Newmarket, Canada, Kapil D. Katyal, Arlington, Va., and Yang Zhong, San Jose, Calif., for an "apparatus, system, and method for hiding advanced XML schema properties in EMF objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method for hiding advanced XML schema properties in EMF objects. XML Schema may comprise both user-defined properties and internal properties related to the structural features of the schema. The present invention hides the internal properties from clients while still keeping them available such that a complete XML Schema model can be generated, but without exposing a client to the non-intuitive internal properties. An SDO implementation leverages EMF implementation artifacts to present a client with an SDO API exposing user-defined properties and metadata describing user-defined properties. The SDO implementation further provides an extended API through which a client may access internal properties and metadata describing the internal properties. The invention further accounts for both dynamic SDO objects and static SDO objects." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2007 (11/828,957). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,434,055&OS=8,434,055&RS=8,434,055 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Boeing Assigned Patent for Distributed Security Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,434,125) developed by four co-inventors for a distributed security architecture. The co-inventors are Tirumale K. Ramesh, Centreville, Va., John L. Meier, St. Charles, Mo., Jason Edward Amanatullah, Campbell, Calif., and Ming-Yuh Huang, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A distributed security architecture may include: a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point configured to control communication behaviors of a mobile client by enforcing communication policies within a policy decision point; a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy decision point encapsulated within the mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point; a policy exchange channel for policy distribution modes configured to distribute and/or update communication and routing security policies to the mobile client; a contextual manager configured to handle system-wide status change update signaling; and a mobility authentication manager configured to provide mobile clients with registration and credential/role assignments based on mobile access policies. The distributed security architecture may be configured to provide open system interconnection layer 3.5 policy-based secure routing, and open system interconnection layer 2 policy-based mandatory access control address filtering to provide secure communication and computing for layers 4, 5, 6, and 7." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2008 (12/043,034). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,434,125&OS=8,434,125&RS=8,434,125 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verisign Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Verisign, Dulles, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,433,700) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for triggering web crawling based on registry data." The co-inventors are Karthik Shyamsunder, Winchester, Va., Srinivas Sunkara, Ashburn, Va., Alexander Durych Holmes, Sterling, Va., Andrew Simpson, Sterling, Va., and Phani Pattappu, Ashburn, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of triggering crawling of a domain includes receiving information related to a domain from a registrar and processing the information related to the domain. The method also includes storing the processed information in a registry zone file and forming a list of registry data based on the processed information. The list of registry data comprises a subset of the registry zone file. The method further includes crawling one or more of the domains in the list of registry data." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2010 (12/884,795). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,33,700.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,700&RS=PN/84,33,700 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Aerospace Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Aerospace, El Segundo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,433,662) developed by Matthew Phillip Ferringer, Round Hill, Va., Ronald Scott Clifton, Leesburg, Va., and Timothy Guy Thompson, Purcellville, Va., for "systems and methods for a core management system for parallel processing of an evolutionary algorithm." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for a core management system for parallel processing of an evolutionary algorithm. The systems and methods may include identifying, for a processing environment, a plurality of arriving processors available for utilization; configuring a first number of the plurality of arriving processors as master processors for the processing environment; configuring a respective second number of the plurality of arriving processors as slave processors, where each master processor is assigned one or more of the slave processors for the processing environment, where each master processor maintains timing data associated with available processing resources at the respective master processor, where each master processor is operative to calculate a respective target number of slaves based upon the respective timing data; and reconfiguring a current number of slave processors assigned to one or more respective master processors based upon the respective timing data calculated for the one or more respective master processors." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2009 (12/550,724). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,33,662.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,662&RS=PN/84,33,662 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Genworth Financial Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Genworth Financial, Richmond, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,433,634) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for providing a benefit product with periodic guaranteed income." The co-inventors are James C. Templeman, Richmond, Va., Matthew Sharpe, Richmond, Va., Kristi Leighton, Richmond, Va., Paul Haley, Richmond, Va., Geoffrey S. Stiff, Richmond, Va., and William S. White, Glen Allen, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method and system that implements a benefit product that provides a guaranteed income amount for a participant, the benefit product generates the guaranteed income amount by participating in a plurality of guaranteed income products (GI products). The system may comprise: (1) an income aggregator portion; (2) a savings recordkeeper portion that maintains an investment account associated with the benefit product, the investment account into which the payments to the benefit product pass; and (3) at least one income recordkeeper portion, each income recordkeeper portion administering one or more GI products, each income recordkeeper portion: determining, based on an attributable allocation to a particular GI product, a guaranteed income associated with such particular GI product, each guaranteed income being an amount, attributable to the particular GI product, that is payable to a participant. The income aggregator performs allocation processing, the allocation processing being performed based on funds transfer data, the funds transfer data including (1) first funds transfer data that reflects activity of the investment account and benefit product associated therewith, and (2) second funds transfer data that reflects activity of a respective GI product." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2009 (12/434,334). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,33,634.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,634&RS=PN/84,33,634 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ofinno Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Ofinno Technologies, Herndon, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,433,657) developed by Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Herndon, Va., for a "secure and mobile financial transaction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A portable device is configured to transmit a first encrypted message to an account database server. The first encrypted message may comprise a request to get information about a financial account. The portable device receives a second encrypted message comprising the financial account information. The portable device wirelessly receives a signal from a merchant machine and wirelessly transmits a response message to the merchant machine. The response message comprises account related information for the merchant machine to trigger a financial transaction." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2012 (13/437,590). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,33,657.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,657&RS=PN/84,33,657 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** George Mason Intellectual Properties Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- George Mason Intellectual Properties, Fairfax, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,433,736) developed by Miaoqing Huang, Washington, and Krzysztof Gaj, Centreville, Va., for a "scalable Montgomery multiplication architecture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Montgomery multiplication device calculates a Montgomery product of an operand X and an operand Y with respect to a modulus M and includes a plurality of processing elements. In a first clock cycle, two intermediate partial sums are created by obtaining an input of length w-1 from a preceding processing element as w-1 least significant bits. The most significant bit is configured as either zero or one. Then, two partial sums are calculated using a word of the operand Y, a word of the modulus M, a bit of the operand X, and the two intermediate partial sums. In a second clock cycle, a selection bit is obtained from a subsequent processing element and one of the two partial sums is selected based on the value of the selection bit. Then, the selected partial sum is used for calculation of a word of the Montgomery product." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2010 (12/714,992). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,433,736&OS=8,433,736&RS=8,433,736 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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